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'Cannibal' Shark Eats Its Siblings In The Womb
Most humans are pretty scared of sharks, but for the sand tiger shark, its own brothers and sisters are the ones who have the most to fear.In one of nature's most extreme cases of sibling rivalry, the...
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New Brain Research Could Help Us Live Longer
The secret to living longer may be all in your head after all. A team of neuroscientists has found a way to extend the lives of lab mice by simply switching a brain pathway on and off, according to a...
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This Creepy Skeleton Is Actually Human [PHOTOS]
What you see here is a real-life lilliputian, the tiny mythical characters from Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels."This is not a hoax.The tiny mummified skeleton has been baffling researchers since...
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These Flying Robot Flies Will Haunt You [VIDEO]
Insects are the most mystifying flying creatures on earth. They can hover, easily move in any direction, and artfully but maddeningly dodge a fly swatter.And they have inspired a group of engineers to...
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This Ad Agency Has A Live Web Cam Of The Falcons Nesting On Its Roof
A pair of Peregrine Falcons nesting on the roof of Detroit ad agency Campbell Ewald and have produced three eggs. The agency has set up a live webcam to record and stream live footage of the eggs'...
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THE 17-YEAR CICADAS ARE COMING
Sometime in April or May of this year, a swarm of insects called Brood II Cicadas will rise from the earth and fill the skies all across the Northeast, from Virginia to Connecticut.It sounds like a...
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Oldest Water On Earth Found Deep Underground
A pocket of water some 2.6 billion years old — the most ancient pocket of water known by far, older even than the dawn of multicellular life — has now been discovered in a mine 2 miles below the...
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Giant Fluorescent Pink Slug Discovered In Australia
The '80s called and they want their slug back.This giant fluorescent pink slug from a mountaintop in Australia was just recently identified as a variety of the species Triboniophorus aff. Graeffei.The...
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A Rare, Giant Fish Was Caught On Video For The First Time
An eight-foot-long, rarely observed "oarfish" has been seen by a remote vessel off the coast of Mexico, according to a report published June 5 in the Journal of Fish and Biology.Its scientific name is...
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19 Unlikely Animals Who Are Best Friends
It's not unheard of for animals to become quite chummy with members of another species — even with those they would normally consider eating. Abandonment, trauma, or living together on farms or zoos,...
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A Woman's Brain Was Sliced Into 7,400 Pieces For Science [PHOTOS]
Researchers have turned the brain of a 65-year-old woman into a freely available high-resolution 3-D interactive visualization that will allow scientists to see every corner of the brain at the...
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Japanese Scientists Want To Make Human-Animal Hybrids To Grow Organs
Scientists who want grow human organs in the bodies of animals are on their way to getting the OK from the Japanese government, according to Phys.org.The scientists, led by Hiromitsu Nakauchi of the...
View ArticleSarah Silverman Tweeted A Weird Question About Peeing, And We Found The Answer
Sarah Silverman tweeted a question yesterday that we felt morally compelled to answer:Prob a dumb question but should you pee w force or is it healthier to just kind of let it happen? Thx— Sarah...
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How To Deal With And Prevent Mosquito Bites
Mosquitoes are out all over the United States, and they are sucking the blood out of any warm or cold-blooded creature they can find.They can be incredibly annoying, and some people think they...
View ArticleBananas Are Wal-Mart's Best-Selling Item And Other Strange Facts
Bananas are everywhere. Everyone has eaten one. They are a cheap fruit and great source of nutrients like potassium.But, according to SciShow's Hank Greene, they are also freaky. The folks over at...
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How A Smart Scalpel Can 'Smell' Cancer During Surgery
European researchers have created a scalpel that can "smell" a tumor and determine whether or not it is cancerous in a matter of seconds.In doing so, they found a way to turn a pesky byproduct of new...
View ArticleWatch A Drunken Science Journo Rant On Ligers And Human-Orc Mating
Talking about species can be dull, but not when you add alcohol. 23 drinks into the evening, science writer Charles Choi attempted to explain speciation — the process by which new species develop —...
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Watch A Glowing Blue 'Death Fluorescence' Take Over The Body Of A Dying Worm
Never has "feeling blue" carried such a sense of finality. A new study has revealed the simple worm (Caenorhabditis elegans) meets its death in a flash of azure. And, according to researchers, the blue...
View ArticleThis Is What Happens When A Zebra And A Donkey Hook Up
A zebra rescued from a failing zoo has mated with a donkey on an animal reserve in Florence, Italy, and produced — you guessed it — a baby "zonkey."The male zebra and female donkey were not...
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Mosquito Expert Calls Out A Big Problem In The Plot Of Jurassic Park
There's a glaring mistake in the 1993 dinosaur classic Jurassic Park that any good entomologist would know. The mosquito used in the film is completely the wrong species.In the film, scientists extract...
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